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302 pages ; 24 cm. |
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American beginnings, 1500-1900 |
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American beginnings, 1500-1900.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party was the first party built on opposition to slavery to win on the national stage--but its victory was rooted in the earlier efforts of underappreciated antislavery third parties. Liberty Power tells the story of how abolitionist activists built the most transformative third-party movement in American history and effectively reshaped political structures in the decades leading up to the Civil War. As Cory M. Brooks explains, abolitionist trail-blazers who organized first the Liberty Party and later the more moderate Free Soil Party confronted formidable opposition from a two-party system expressly constructed to suppress disputes over slavery. Identifying the Whigs and Democrats as the mainstays of the southern Slave Power's national supremacy, savvy abolitionists insisted that only a party independent of slaveholder influence could wrest the federal government from its grip. A series of shrewd electoral, lobbying, and legislative tactics enabled these antislavery third parties to wield influence far beyond their numbers. In the process, these parties transformed the national political debate and laid the groundwork for the success of the Republican Party and the end of American slavery. -- Provided by the publisher. |
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Introduction -- Political abolition and the slave power argument, 1835-1840 -- Agitating the congress : abolitionist lobbying and antislavery alliances, 1836-1844 -- Building third-party electoral power, 1841-1846 -- Antislavery upheaval in the capitol : the Wilmot Proviso debates and the widening sectional divide, 1846-1848 -- Liberty men and the creation of an anti-slave power coalition, 1846-1849 -- Free soil politics and the twilight of the second party system, 1849-1853 -- The Nebraska outrage and the advent of the Republican Party, 1853-1855. |
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Liberty Party (U.S. : 1840-1848)
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Free Soil Party (U.S.)
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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
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Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Third parties (United States politics) -- History -- 19th century.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1845-1861.
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Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Free Soil Party (U.S.) (OCoLC)fst00671592
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Liberty Party (U.S. : 1840-1848) (OCoLC)fst01718563
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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) (OCoLC)fst00544975
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American Civil War (1861-1865) (OCoLC)fst01351658
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Antislavery movements. (OCoLC)fst00810800
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Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Slavery -- Political aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01120480
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Third parties (United States politics) (OCoLC)fst01150126
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War -- Causes.
(OCoLC)fst01170331
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9780226307282 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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022630728X (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780226307312 (ebook) |
| Standard No. |
40025727784 |
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